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Sunday, March 20, 2011

nature calls...

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French overnighters left...Maria the botanist arrived. We made the rounds to some of the recent blooms I spotted on the Terlingua Creek Cat's Eye plant. She carried on with her research while I went over the instructions for the garden cam she brought out. Set it up for a test today and found it needs to be tweaked a bit. Loaded the software tonight and programmed the flash drive for the camera.

Just in the last couple of days - the desert has been greening up with just the equinox heat and no water. Can't help but think these plants are pumping out their last reserves just to get some buds growing. Transplanted a store bought tomato plant into a bucket of dung'n'dirt. First official vegetable of the unfinished greenhouse. Made a run over to the waterboxx experiment and found no evidence yet of sprouts but all the tubs are still filled with water.

The Panther Mountain Clan left today and dropped off their leftover food and a Javelina head. Had an endless sunset tonight. 78,92,57,0,C

The desert didn't grab me like the forest did, but the wide open spaces? Very appealing. The way my allergies are becoming more and more make the desert seem more attractive.Nice hole job on the gutter downspouts, and the picture made me notice the welded rebar of your roof/funnel. Nice job there, too.I have wondered where the longhorns get their water, but I'm sure I'll find the chapter.So many visitors!